1. Items presented in the annual and consolidated financial statements shall be recognised and measured in accordance with the following general principles:
(a) the undertaking shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern;
(b) accounting policies and measurement bases shall be applied consistently from one financial year to the next;
(c) recognition and measurement shall be on a prudent basis, and in particular:
(i) only profits made at the balance sheet date may be recognised,
(ii) all liabilities arising in the course of the financial year concerned or in the course of a previous financial year shall be recognised, even if such liabilities become apparent only between the balance sheet date and the date on which the balance sheet is drawn up, and
(iii) all negative value adjustments shall be recognised, whether the result of the financial year is a profit or a loss;
(d) amounts recognised in the balance sheet and profit and loss account shall be computed on the
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